‘ And the young men, the spies, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. All her kindred also they brought out, and they set them outside the camp of Israel.'
As they had sworn to do the two spies ensured the safety of Rahab and all her wider family who had gathered in her house. We note, however, that ‘they set them outside the camp of Israel' in a camp of their own. They could not enter the camp for they were ‘devoted' and were idolaters, and thus defiling (compare Leviticus 13:46; Numbers 5:3; Numbers 31:13; Numbers 31:19). Thus they must be kept separate until they had undergone some cleansing ritual, including the renunciation of idolatry, and, if necessary, circumcision (although they may have already been circumcised) and incorporation into the congregation of Israel. This was presumably required of them (see Joshua 6:25).